Sneak Peek: Hot New 29ers

Open O-1.0 29er

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Open may be a new name but its owerns, Gerard Vroomen and Andy Kessler, are no strangers to the bike business. Vroomen is a co-founder of Cervelo and Kessler is the former CEO of BMC. Gerard brings his engineering know how to the mountain bike world with a carbon hardtail that shared many features with Cervelo road frame, including its BBright bottom bracket, flat seatstays, oversized chainstays and flat-sided downtube. Kessler said he expects Shimano to produce an electronic shifting group for mountain bikes in the near future and Open’s modular cable stops will accommodate a wired system.

The 900-gram frame retails for $2,700 and will be available by the end of June.